Safely stealing eggs from broody???

[Kiki]

Yesterday I got lucky and when I was doing some coop cleaning she got off the nest for a few minutes. Today I put on long sleeves and a garden glove and reached right in. She was not happy, but it was not as bad as I thought. In the end I just pushed her out of the nest box to get to the last egg. She is monopolizing the favorite box so some of the chickens have been laying in odd places too.

 

[aart]

Today I put on long sleeves and a garden glove and reached right in. She was not happy, but it was not as bad as I thought.

 

[ChirpyChicks1]

My mom said shen she was growing up she would put an empty soup can over the chickens head so she could get the eggs lol

 

[ThatsneakyHen]

I hate when they do that! I keep stepping on some!

 

[aart]

My mom said shen she was growing up she would put an empty soup can over the chickens head so she could get the eggs lol

When I was chicken sitting for a friend years ago,
he used a small wooden berry basket to cover chickens head.

 

[PirateGirl]

This morning she got off the nest (of no eggs) to take a dust bath. I was happy to see her leave because hopefully that means she is getting up to get food and water too. I am also glad she took a dust bath because she broke one of the eggs that had been under her a few days ago and was a mess.

 

[aart]

This morning she got off the nest (of no eggs) to take a dust bath. I was happy to see her leave because hopefully that means she is getting up to get food and water too. I am also glad she took a dust bath because she broke one of the eggs that had been under her a few days ago and was a mess.

If there's a mess in nest remove bird and clean nest.... and bird too, if it's real bad.

 

[PirateGirl]

If there's a mess in nest remove bird and clean nest.... and bird too, if it's real bad.

Thanks. Yes. The day of the broken egg I took out all the nest boxes and dumped all the straw and hosed them down.

At night should I try and take the broody out of the nest box and put her on a roost? I need to go to the articles section and read up on breaking a broody if my neighbor doesn't want me to hatch for her.

 

[featherhead007]

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[aart]

Thanks. Yes. The day of the broken egg I took out all the nest boxes and dumped all the straw and hosed them down.

At night should I try and take the broody out of the nest box and put her on a roost? I need to go to the articles section and read up on breaking a broody if my neighbor doesn't want me to hatch for her.

Oh, I thought you wanted her to hatch.
If you want to break her, take her out of nest at any time of the day and toss her in a broody breaker crate.

My experience went like this: After her setting for 3 days and nights in the nest, I put her in a wire dog crate with smaller wire on the bottom but no bedding, set up on a couple of 4x4's right in the coop with feed and water.

I used to let them out a couple times a day, but now just once a day in the evening(you don't have to) and she would go out into the run, drop a huge turd, race around running, take a vigorous dust bath then head back to the nest... at which point I put her back in the crate. Each time her outings would lengthen a bit, eating, drinking and scratching more and on the 3rd afternoon she stayed out of the nest and went to roost that evening...event over, back to normal tho she didn't lay for another week or two. Or take her out of crate daily very near roosting time(30-60 mins) if she goes to roost great, if she goes to nest put her back in crate.